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Michael Strates wrote:
>Folks,
>
>I was wondering how one could merge a GIF and a JPEG at the shell prompt,
>or add text to a GIF/JPG file, ie: what I want to do, is incorporate a
>top widget called "toprow.gif", and then add the words "Hello World" to
>"middle.gif" in a reasonable font, and then add "bottom.gif" to the whole
>file, and then pipe the whole thing to zgv running in slideshow mode.
>
>Any ideas on how one could do this on the fly at the prompt?


Maybe if you borrow from an X graphics package working with pixmaps and
then output the pixmap to a pixmap to jpg converter.
I don't know how clean the gimp source is to read, but there may be a
few library routines in libgimp or libgtk that could be fairly trivially
put to work towards solving your problem.

I saw a filter that joined images (It was used for a web counter) maybe
you could work around the problem with that. 
The program was called fly, and it came from a victorian uni I think.

David Stanaway.